[
UK
/tʃˈɛsti/
]
ADJECTIVE
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marked by a large or well-developed chest
he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed
he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed -
having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
chesty as a peacock
an arrogant official
arrogant claims
How To Use chesty In A Sentence
- She glanced over at the bar, where she saw the chesty redhead flirting with a customer as she refilled his drink.
- I am resting in bed with achy bones/muscles and a horrid chesty cough.
- He always thought that, so long as a fellow didn't get "chesty" and kept his head from swelling, he was all right. The Shuttle
- Colonel Lewis B. " Chesty " Puller, the regimental commander of the 1st Marines, left late that afternoon by rail with the 2d Battalion, 1st Marines, "to clear up the situation.
- Doctors have warned that a regular chesty cough can be an indicator of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - the collective name for smoking-related illnesses such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
- She often gets chesty in wet weather.
- I had begun to find their intense flowery scent stifling and had the impression that they were causing my chesty cough.
- Expectorants for example guaiphenesin, ammonium chloride, squill, sodium citrate and ipecacuanha may help chesty coughs.
- The genius, here, is that the athletic soar of that chesty attitude indicates not boyish high spirits or exuberant tough-guy mayhem, but a desperate cling to a fading image of the larger-than-life.
- He has - he sort of has that same kind of chesty quality. The Decade In Classical Recordings
